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Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Tue May 26 20:53:42 BST 2020
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solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:39:07PM +0000, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:
Like many of us, I've really enjoyed reading and taking in people's
gemlogs on Geminispace. But I often want to reply to what people have
written, to ask a question, let them know I enjoyed it etc. I created
gemlikes to be able to do that.
Thanks for sharing your project!
Yes, thanks. I've been pondering myself what is the best way tofacilitate discussions that span more than one phlog/gemlog. Apologiesif I end up hijacking this thread to do it.
Commenting is very rare in Gopherspace, although it is possible and you
occassionally see it. By convention people respond either by just
emailing the author or by writing a response post of their own. I have
read many people say that they really like this, because it encourages a
more carefully thought out and long form response than a comment. Of
course, this second option (writing a response) only really works
because Gopherspace is small enough that there is a high likelihood of
the original poster finding your response.
This does mostly work in gopherspace, but there have been times I wantedto write a reply (on my own phlog), but felt balked because I felt likethey wouldn't see the reply unless I was listed on one of the two phlogaggregators that most people use, and I wasn't.
In my experience the email thing works well, and lends Gopherspace a
very personal feel, which I enjoy. That, too, might break down if email
address harvesting robots penetrate Geminispace in the future and people
don't want to put their address on their "about" page.
I should probably make my reply email more prominent on my gemlog posts.
But what I was thinking about was something more similar toPingbacks[1]. I'm not interested in comments on blogs; I'm moreinterested in something like what we have going in gopher, but with asystem for notifying authors that they've been replied to on anothergemlog. It looks like the current specification for doing this kind ofthing on the web is Webmention[2], which comes from the indiewebcommunity. I haven't put in very much thought into how I actually wantit to work, but I probably need to start by reading the Webmentiondocumentation.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmention
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